Nonfiction:

Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny

By: Michael Wallis

Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

By: Tera W. Hunter

Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery

By: Margaret Ellen Newell

Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in 18th Century New England

By: Douglas L. Winiarski

David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet

By: Thomas Diworth

Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Last Franklin Expedition

By: Paul Watson

James A. Garfield

By: Ira M. Rutkow

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

By: David Grann

The Lowells of Massachusetts: An American Family

By: Nina Sankovitch

Prisoner in His Palace: Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid

By: Will Bardenwerper

A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790’s and the Birth of American Nationalism

By: Carol Berkin

Vulgar Tongues: An Alternative History of American Slang

By: Max Decharn

Donated:

Donated by Doris Finley:

Vacation Yesterdays of New England, by William H. Marnell

The New England Image, by Samuel Chamberlain

Donated by Kevin Lafond:

Portsmouth High School Commencement Program for the Class of 2017

Clipper 2017(PHS yearbook)

Portsmouth Middle School Yearbook 2017

Donated by Dave Sanderson:

Letter of Samuel Haines, esquire, in vindication of himself against the unfounded and slanderous charges of Capt. John B. Walbach, which prevented his appointment as major in the new army.

The children in the woods, or, The Norfolk gentleman’s last will and testament. (broadside)

Pilgrims’ Song, by James Flint, music by B. Brown

Donated by Robin Silva:

Before the Fall, by Noah Hawley

The Book of Polly, by Kathy Hepinstall

Donated by Tom von Hemert:

An epistolary correspondence between the Rev. John C. Ogden, Rector of St. John’s Church, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and the Rev. Samuel Macclintock, Minister of the Congregational Society in Greenland, on a variety of subjects : principally the high powers and prerogatives claimed by diocesan bishops as successors of the Apostles, by John C. Ogden and Samuel Macclintock.

Author John Lillard will present a talk about his new book "Playing War: Wargaming and U.S. Navy Preparations for World War II". The book explores wargaming at the Naval War College during the 20s and 30s, and how it helped the Navy prepare for the war against Japan.

Historic Portsmouth Chamber Music Series presents Jose Lezcano with String Ensemble. Guitarist Jose Lezcano, violinist Jennifer Elowitch, and members of the Portland Chamber Music Festival team up to play a program of music for guitar and strings. The program, "Mediterranean Muses & Iberian Images" includes works by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (his sunny and lyrical masterpiece, the Guitar Quintet), Luigi Boccherini (the exciting Fandango from his Quintet in D minor for guitar and strings), and a virtuoso Sonata Concertante for guitar and violin by Paganini. Lezcano will also present one of his compositions for guitar and strings, Mojito y Habano in a premiere performance.

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